I give this guy credit for standing up on how bad the anime ending was unlike everybody else.. here it is:
C'mon guys, Naruto is not a shoujo anime. It's shonen. Despite that, they end on a wedding instead of showing the build up towards Naruto achieving his dream of becoming Hokage? Seriously, we sat through all of those episodes, listened to all of his speeches, delt with all the stupidity and fillers and stupid fillers, and yet, despite all this, Naruto Shippuden focuses on the most minor aspect to the series: romance.
Look, I get it, you enjoy seeing your ship come to fruition... but it's not what Naruto's about. If I just watched the show on TV like I would have watched DBZ as a kid, I would never get to see Naruto achieve his dream. This focus on the wedding and the high budget animation in comparison to most of the canon scenes and fights just left a bad taste in my mouth.
They couldn't even do chapter 700.
This ending was bullcrap and I'm calling all of you out for eating it up anyway.
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I actually agree, they really overdid the romance stuff especially these last 10 episodes.
I would've preferred seeing Naruto going on missions and learning how to be a decent hokage instead. Or give us some Naruto and Sasuke bromance, that's a lot more interesting than a wedding.
Jiraiya wasn't even mentioned once. He was more of a fatherly figure than Iruka ever was. I always considered Iruka being like Naruto's big brother.
They ruined him in boruto and it makes me sad. Including his awful haircut he should've had the cut like his dads. In that episode road to tenten where he had those really long sides. It should've been that not what he has now. His current cut doesn't suit him at all. A growth similar to Minato would've been perfect. There's art of it and it's just great.
I actually agree with you. I would rather see chapter 700 animated or at the very least, Naruto's interaction with his son and the final few pages with Naruto commencing the gokage council. Even if it was about being acknowledged, that shouldn't undermine all the moments he declared he'll be hokage. Since part 1, he's said that. In fights against Kiba, Neji and Kabuto he's declared it. He told his mother he'll be the orange hokage. Even after Itachi told him about the link between acknowledgement and hokage, Naruto was still saying he'll be hokage. You have moments of Obito telling him he'll be hokage. You have Naruto lecturing Obito on what it means to be hokage. You have Tobirama saying he'll surpass his brother as hokage. Shikamaru saying he needs to support Naruto as hokage. Etc etc etc. it was about acknowledgment but it was also about being hokage. That's what it's all been leading up to.
What i got instead was a finale focused on Shikamaru holding hands with Temari, Ino holding hands with Sai, obviously Naruto and Hinata and for some weird reason, Sakura, a bird, and Sasuke with a random minimal note that just reads one word. It did feel like the ending to a shoujo series. It didn't feel like a conclusion to the shonen series, but a conclusion to this arc that had a very different tone to the series as a whole. Even then, the episode was about the moment before the wedding began, not the wedding itself. I don't think we can just say it's about bonds and ignore the very heavy and obvious focus on romance in a series the original author very clearly declared is not about romance
I couldn't agree more. So disappointing that the studio kept feeding these fans something to post for their tumblr accounts. "but but a lot of people came to support Naruto, etc." ah, he is already a living legend in the shinobi world. He doesn't need the wedding to show that people will bond together for him because even without it, everyone already acknowledges him. In konoha, way back pain's arc. And after the war, the whole world.
The animation from the climax of the war episodes, with Obito's and Madara's scenes were so poorly animated it hurts watching it a couple of times.
They could have just animate chapter 700 and filled it with some character interactions. But noooo. Ahh it could've been much better. Shippuden deserves better. We deserve better.
But oh well, it ended with episode 479 for me
Have to agree, I only just got around to watching it this morning and I thought it was just a cheap ending for everything it had made us all feel in the past. To be honest, I thought the anime was just going to end when the war ended, and when it kept going I thought, What left is there to do??? Oh right Naruto hasn't become hokage yet....... Nope we were waiting for a wedding... of a romance we didn't even see..... Really disappointed to not feel anything from the ending of what made me feel so much in it's years of airing.
Naruhina is so forced so yeah the ending was bad. They had no development whatsoever and naruto only decided he loved her back after realizing he should accept that she loves him. Oh, and after 5 minutes of genjutsu which he shouldn't have been affected by. Naruto barely payed her any mind and they barely talked. Hinata watched him from behind a tree when he was lonely instead of helping him. Sasuke was narutos only goal and sasuke said that naruto was the only one to save him from his loneliness. Iruka was the first to acknowledge naruto, not Hinata. Hinata cared more about a stupid scarf than her sister hanabi. Naruto sleeps on the couch and looks miserable with his family and has to take pills at breakfast. Are you seeing the picture?
Oh yeah and neji died just so NH could have a moment. Unacceptable.
And those scenes in the last with naruto and Hinata as little kids NEVER happened. In the show it shows sasuke and naruto acknowledging each other because they are both lonely as little kids. Hinata was never kittening there and even now In boruto because they decided to put those two together the family is entirely dysfunctional. Naruto stays in his office all the time while Hinata barely knows anything about him. They barely talk and the kid feels neglected and acts like a fool. Happy family? Meant to be ship? Ha.
From what I saw a majority of the comments tend to agree, but a few did defend the reasonings for the ending, but still I'm glad there people out there besides ourselves that can see just how bad the anime ending was.
Edited by LuckyChi7, 25 March 2017 - 03:02 PM.